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One Sweet Day : [typescript draft of chapter one]

File contains one copy of hand numbered manuscript for chapter one of the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with a few handwritten notes througohut text and on page backs, possibly from editor. "Chapter One: One Sweet Day" is labelled on first page.

Photographs of Sounds Like Canada panellists

File contains two photographs of the 2005 CBC Canada Reads panel, which included Donna Morrissey, Olivia Chow, Molly Johnson, Roch Carrier and Sherraine MacKay. Host Bill Richardson also appears in the photos. There is one photograph of Donna Morrissey and Molly Johnson holding their respective books. Also included in the folder are two undated photographs of Donna Morrissey at different events with unidentified individuals.

Pluck

Subseries contains manuscripts and correspondence for Donna Morrissey's Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist, which was published in 2021 by Penguin/Random House Canada.

Pluck : [manuscript]

Item is an unpaginated manuscript with the title Pluck written in black marker across the top.

Publicity and reviews

Series contains records regarding publicity and reviews of Morrissey's work as well as press items regarding her life. The types of records included here are predominantly newspaper clippings, magazine articles and radio and television interviews.

Rage the Night

Subseries contains manuscripts, notes, correspondence and secondary research materials related to Rage the Night, a novel written by Donna Morrissey and published by Penguin Canada in 2023.

Roan RTN

Item is a typed manuscript page with a handwritten title.

Sylvanus Now

Subseries contains typescripts, drafts, manuscripts, and a sample cover of Sylvanus Now. Early drafts are titled Rocking her Babies.

Television interviews with Donna Morrissey

Item is a videocassette containing: a 5-minute panel interview with Donna Morrissey, Gregor Ash and Glenn Mettin regarding the best films of the past 100 years; a ca. 60-minute interview with Donna Morrissey in "Ziggy Introduces the Person Behind the Book"; and a 5-minute segment from CBC Midday regarding Kit's Law.

The Clothesline Patch

Subseries contains manuscripts of the script, short story versions, character sketches, a synopsis, and an outline of The Clothesline Patch.

The Deception of Livvy Higgs

Subseries contains sixteen files of drafts at various levels of completeness for the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs. The majority of the drafts are labelled as chapter one, but may contain pieces of other chapters. Some draft have been numbered, either in the typescript or with handwritten annotations, but not all drafts appear to be in order and some have duplicated pages. Drafts contain various titles, title suggestions, and editorial comments.

The Deception of Livvy Higgs is a book by Donna Morrissey.

For two days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets.

The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-1930s and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War, then leaps ahead to the bedside of the elderly Livvy.

Caught between a troubled past, and her present worsening living conditions, Livvy is forced to pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father despite their mutual hatred.

Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-door neighbour, Gen, a single mother, social-work student, and part-time drug dealer. Overnight, a violent scene embroils the two in each other's lives in a manner that will entwine them forever.

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